The history of Hurriganes has been rewritten already many times and it is as long as the Finnish rock history.

The Hurriganes was started in 1971 by a drummer and a singer Remu Aaltonen, a bassist Cisse Häkkinen and a guitarist Ile Kallio. Kallio left the band in the spring 1972 and he was replaced by Albert Järvinen. The most known composition of the Hurriganes was formed by then.

From the year 1998, Aaltonen has been performing with variable compositions using the name of Remu & Hurriganes. The current band has been settled about three years ago. Now Hurriganes consists of, besides the leading man Aaltonen, Nipa Niilola (guirar/vocals), Antti Rautajoki (guitar), Jaska Ylä-Rautio (bass) and Arska Rautajoki who is the second drum player of the band. Having two drum players isn’t really a new thing for the Hurriganes. They have already done that in 70’s:

“Back in the days when we started kind of show off with all the band stuff, and we got a gig in Ruisrock, I wanted to fucking show off big time. Let’s have another set of drums. Fucking two drum sets and let’s play different comps with them. And as we play kind of rocking music, it worked out so fucking well!”, Remu says.

During the years they went forward but also backwards. There were times when they had a black man playing kongo drums but there were also times when they had long breaks. Aaltonen’s leg got in a bad shape but the band was still wanted to play gigs. During these times the band decided to do the things like they did in the beginning: to have two drum sets – “And it fucking works out so fucking well!”

According to Aaltonen, having two drum players playing at the same time works out like false money; tempos, rhythmic, pulse and percussions are on point. “It is interesting that they are very different in each gig. Arska is checking all the time how I drum the beat with my foot, and there we go.”

So, Remu is still leading the Hurriganes, sometimes even too much, he thinks. But he still isn’t ready to bend the rules. “When we were making the new record and we were playing one background, I was like, fuck, here it is. All the other guys were like, that you can’t play like that. We can’t keep up. I said to them: THAT IS THE FUCKING THING!”